The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Inc. (BWH) is known for its services in healthcare. The Hospital provides patients with cancer therapy and treatment, cardiovascular, neurosciences, orthopedic, arthritis, women’s fitness, nursing, nutrition, pharmacy, and primary healthcare assistance. BWH serves patients in the State of Massachusetts.
In India the business of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Inc. focuses on compositions and related methods for targeted drug delivery, MSC-expressed immunomodulators in combination with car-t for cancer therapy, elastic biopolymer and use as a tissue adhesive, methods, and compositions relating to the treatment of cancer and parp9 and parp14 as key regulators of macrophage activation.
The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Inc. (BWH) filed a patent application numbered 201818000672 that is titled OLIGOSACCHARIDE BEARING AN O-LINKED LINKER. The patent has been filed in the field of Pharmaceuticals. This Patent Application has been granted as Patent Number 352886. This invention relates to an oligosaccharide bearing an O-linked linker, wherein the linker comprises and wherein the oligosaccharide is β-1-6 linked glucosamine.
During the patent examination, the Patent Examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Patents Act, 1970 stating that with respect to the cited documents, the same or similar compounds are already known in the art.
As a response, the Applicant submitted that neither D1 nor D2 discloses the linker of the claims. Since the claimed linker is novel and does not constitute a new form of any linkers known from D1 or D2, the prescription under Section 3 (d) does not apply to the claims.
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